[OSM-talk] New proposal: Designation

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Montag 17 Dezember 2007 schrieb Andrew MacKinnon:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Designation
>
> Summary: This key would indicate a road or path's official
> designation. For roads, this would include motorway, trunk, primary,
> secondary, etc.; for paths, it would indicate whether a path is
> officially a footway, cycleway, or bridleway. The purpose of this is
> to provide a way to unambiguously describe a road or path's official
> classification, which the highway key does not do very well.
>
but what should this be good for?
what can this key do more than the highway key?
if the values are the same like those which can be used for highway, there's 
no real advantage in using a new key.
most of the highway values are rather "blurred", a mixture of administrative 
and structural attributes which may be well defined within the uk roads 
system, but not internationally.
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